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Accomplishments

Sage Cohen

Writer
Portland, OR

Before the course was finished, I had increased my income by 40%. This was considerably more than the cost of the program.

I also paid off $35,000 of unsecured debt and established powerful practices that give me clarity, freedom, integrity, and authority about how I spend money and time.

Lexy Franklin

App developer
Redwood City, CA

As a direct result of this course, I have saved or made over 20 times more than what I paid for the course.

I transformed my relationship with my dad because of the work I did in this course. The program helped me to become so comfortable in my own skin and so competent in the world. I let go of a lot of my past negative experiences around money.

Tom Davis

Attorney
Laguna Beach, CA

When I started the course, I was in despair and fear. I was in debt at home and at the office. My work of 40 years seemed like a failure. I could not see a light at the end of the tunnel.

It scared me to commit to spend $20,000, but I did, and within three months, I knew it was money well spent.

Right away, I made radical changes in the way I ran my law office. By the end of the year, we turned a profit.

At home, my wife and I developed a way to talk about our spending, understand our cash flow, and reduce our debt.

Marci Shimoff

Best-selling author
San Anselmo, CA

I went into the program with my eyes on retirement, but I've invented a whole new, powerful expression of my work in the world, which has revitalized my career and re-energized my life. I love what I'm doing more than I ever have, and my income has increased substantially. This is a life-changing program, and if I could, I'd stand on a rooftop and shout out to everyone: Take this course!

Cilla Utne

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Minneapolis, MN

I have had a really, really transformative year. I am more open to the subtleties of every day life. I’m feeling content and satisfied with the progress of my book.

My husband and I took the course together. We paid down 100% of our credit card debt.

Leif Utne

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Minneapolis, MN

John Musser, PhD

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Founder and CEO of Enhanced Sales Potential
Atlanta, GA

My earnings increased 23%. This course has forever altered the trajectory of my life including marrying my life partner after seven years of being together.

I no longer live in constant fear of not having enough money. I know where I stand with regard to my retirement.

Nancy Dorrier

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Charlotte, NC

I realize there is no cap on making or raising money. It is directly correlated to the contribution I choose to make in the world and to the power and effectiveness of the requests I am making.

Before this program, I just wanted to know about MY money. Now I am interested in the phenomenon of money, its impact on modern life, and how I can participate in changing the money culture in a positive way.

Landon Carter

Trainer/author
Nevada City, CA

This course is what we all should have taken in our 20's and 30's. Not only does it address the aspects of how we make money, save money, and invest our money, but it gets to the heart of who we are in our lives that is the source of our wealth and our well-being.

Diane Covington-Carter

Author/coach
Nevada City, CA

Not only did Landon and I take this course together, we also created a budget and cash flow. Now we are able to discuss money with ease.

Wendy Grace

Scotts Valley, CA

When I signed up for the program, I felt incredibly burdened by my financial gifts. Now, I have found a new literacy with money and confidence in myself. I appreciate where life has brought me, and I have a deeper heart faith in where I am going.

Patrice Robson

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

My husband and I took the course together. It promised to be a transformational program, and it delivered. Lynne, Tammy, Dave and the coaches brilliantly live and teach the highest order of money and life skills.

Jim Rheim, MD

Carmel Valley, CA

At the recommendation of my wife who did the course the first year, I agreed and brought my life-long friend. We were both pleasantly surprised by the results.

I’ve learned that it is really fun to gain insights into life’s challenges, demands, and gifts. I have gained wisdom to prepare for future challenges.

Julia Dederer

Consultant
Campbell, CA

Out of participating in the money course I have a solid financial foundation for my next 30 years. I feel I've completed a one-year MBA program in transformational personal finance.

I have let go of several blind spots in my life where I was living unconsciously from not having enough. Now, I live in gratitude knowing I have enough in all areas.

Charles Pfeffer

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Management Consultant
Rochester, NY

The most powerful value I created is a shift in my conversations with my wife regarding money. They’ve moved from being almost consistently fear-based to being much more possibility based and future based. It’s been remarkable, and it’s created a real opening in our relationship.

Jan Cook

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Penfield, NY

The miracle is that I have met my income goals for the course and have the foundation for doubling my income for next year.

As a widow coming into this course, I feel I have completed widow-hood, and I’m standing in many tangible possibilities for my life.

Dave Torrey

Management Consultant
Mountain View, CA

Even people who have accumulated significant wealth have "money issues", which they have not really considered and addressed in a deep and thoughtful way. This course will open your eyes, your mind, and your heart to many different aspects of money and the role it plays in your life... and the role it could play.

You will walk away with a deeper understanding of yourself, and you will get many new ideas and insights that will help you live a more meaningful and fulfilling life. Yes, it is a "money course", but you will see that money is just a lens through which you will take a look at many aspects of your life . . . and how it could be better.

Lynn Freitag

Springfield, IL

I have accomplished so much including: an even more loving relationship with my husband, all our children, daughter-in-law, and grandsons; a budget that I can adhere to while staying flexible; a new-found love affair with monitoring my money; and clarity about where I want to spend my time and money.

A 20-minute conversation regarding life insurance saved me almost two million dollars in lifetime benefits. An exercise we did put me in the space of gratitude for my life just as it is and all the gifts that made it possible.

Andrés Novoa

Social entrepreneur
Bogotá, Colombia, S.A.

I leave the program in appreciation. I re-centered on my purpose, re-connected to multiple possibilities, and learned to develop more powerful and meaningful business offers.

I was honored to learn from such a great team as Lynne, Tammy, and Dave (not to mention the coaches and other students). I really believe they are masters in each of their domains.

Lynne is a person I admire profoundly. To me she really brings a transformational view of our relationship with and around money that is always generating connection with our true Being.

Tammy was always clear about financial topics, putting them in an amazingly clear manner that really allowed me to rediscover the joy of finances.

Dave was a very honest and creative leader that showed me the way to multiple possibilities, always inviting to a fresh challenge of my limits.

Ellen Hurst

Sunnyvale, CA

I rediscovered that I am a person who is committed to people and the planet. I have found myself stepping out of the consumer driven reality and seeing the possibility of a joy-filled life for me and others. I have discovered and generated a deep and playful partnership with my husband regarding our finances and planning our financial future. We are now having fun with it.

Peter Chandonnet

Yoga instructor and coach
San Francisco, CA

I came into the course being happy, successful, and prosperous, then I gained a whole new appreciation for the creation, management, and legacy of my money. I transformed many aspects of my life.

I am having way more fun earning, spending, and investing my money. I have eliminated the dread I felt in the early morning and late at night about money. I am on the path to be profoundly and authentically calm, confident, and happy. I have ease, clarity, and conviction with growing my business and my estate.

Ellen Fondiler

Career Strategist for Millennials
Berkeley, CA

This course is worth every penny you will spend to take it. Lynne, Tammy, and Dave teach the short view, the long view, and the soul view. They are master teachers and deep souls. They know how to create meaningful community and are dedicated to making sure each and every participant gets total value from the course.

Bonnie Hutchinson

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Author, speaker, consultant
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Through coaching, webinars, live events, and the climate of love and safety, I’m a more evolved human being. I created an inner foundation I will use to make great progress.

The most valuable benefit from the course is my absolute clarity of purpose for the next phase of my life. I’ve gained knowledge, skills, and new practices. I’ve felt privileged and uplifted to be part of a community of people who are committed to their own growth and to their contribution to the world.

Louise Glaser, MD

Pediatrician
Carmichael, CA

I am having fun monitoring my cash! Who knew? I will teach my kids about cash flow and budgeting.

I have gained a user friendly understanding of financial vocabulary that I did not have. With this comes an ability to make more educated decisions and understand explanations about how to manage my finances. I am now in discovery mode about how I want to contribute to the world.

Debbie King

Consultant
Aptos, CA

I have doubled my income over the last year, and it ALL came through collaboration in this community. And, it is only the beginning of what has become possible in partnerships.

I am using my credit cards about 50% less than I used to. I am responsible for and can cause my mood, and I see the difference it makes, especially for me and the quality of my life. I'm fundamentally at peace about my financial future.

Karen McAllister

Nonprofit Vice-chair and Director of Marketing
San Pablo, Brazil

I found myself repeatedly saying "Wow, why was I not taught this at school or at home? It would have created many shortcuts to success for me." By doing this course, I felt refreshed and nurtured around the practicalities of living life.

I appreciated the coaching about the cultural condition of scarcity, transformational change, and financial literacy. Doing the cash flow and the budget has really taken my relationship with my husband to a whole new level.

Brent Kohler

President and founder
Olympia, WA

During the program, I saved or generated over $186,000. And, that was only the beginning. This year my staff and I devised a way to increase our revenue by 25-30% and, in the process, enhance the safety and health of thousands of employees. I really took to heart that you create wealth by increasing the number of offers made, accepted, and fulfilled.

The course and curriculum blew me away! It's difficult to describe the changes that resulted in unexpected miracles.

Jill Kelly, PhD

Author, editor
Portland, OR

It was a huge leap of faith for me to trust that my money would be well spent on this course. And it was worth every penny.

The amazing teachers, the equally amazing participants, our experiences together, all my new learning, my new friends, and the courage to double my hourly rate were extraordinary gifts. I have accomplished more than I dreamed possible.

Sara Vetter

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Menlo Park, CA

The biggest shift from this course is the way I react to my triggers. I still have them, but I recover quickly and react less to old triggers.

My relationships with my family, co-workers, and friends have grown and deepened to new levels. I live in sufficiency now, not in fear, and I really get that I’m enough.

Brij Masand

Wayland, Massachusetts

The biggest breakthrough I had was in my way of being. I now have peace and freedom in being able to abundantly provide for my family while working less than 30 hours a week while taking care of myself.

I have emerged from being overwhelmed as a single dad to being a fully functioning member of the planet and being more available to others.

Rayona Sharpnack

Founder & CEO, Institute for Women's Leadership
South Lake Tahoe, CA

I could not have imagined that a second year in the program would deliver as powerful an impact as my first year, which was transformative! The result is sustainability and expansion of everything I learned in the first year but with more grace and ease and partnerships beyond my wildest dreams!

Diana Smith

Accountant
Vancouver, WA

My husband and I are in full partnership regarding money. Before the course he was a “I want my cake and eat it too” kind of guy, and I was “We have to scrimp and save.” Now we recognize those notions for what they are. We are planning our financial future in a way we never could before. I walked away with tools on how to implement our desired changes.

Jean Barry

College professor
Merced, CA

This course is unsurpassed by any other course I have taken in my life. The curriculum provided challenge through inspiring ideas that led to viable practices. These in turn nurtured incredible financial and personal growth for me.

My life is so peaceful now in regards to money, and I find myself joyfully stepping into my place in the world. I am financially secure, and the worry over money has disappeared.

Peter Walsh

Business owner and operator
El Cerrito, CA

I charted and embarked on a new career direction, generated new streams of income, reduced my unsecured debt by 75%, and brought clarity, ease, and joy to my personal finances.

Anna Rheim

Carmel Valley, CA

Dave Ellis, Lynne Twist, and Tammy White are the most dynamic and inspirational course leaders I have ever known. They have crafted a course that not only assists people to increase their financial net worth but also to appreciate their personal worth. I highly recommend this course for financial mastery and for deepening one’s life purpose.

Maria Dion

Albuquerque, NM

This course has been a pivotal experience for me! An integral piece for me in getting the most value from the course was the coaching. The support group calls and workshops were absolutely inspirational.

I have deepened my mastery of money and am really living the idea of sufficiency. My family life, spiritual life, work life, and financial life is more empowered and fulfilling. I am on a new track for the rest of my life -- a life of powerful direction, clarity, and peace of mind.

Denise Benson

Mountain View, CA

This has been the course that I have needed all my life. The changes in me have been deep and permanent. I no longer operate with money out of scarcity, and I know deep in my bones how to take care of myself financially.

Bill Cusack

Osprey, FL

The course took place during a very critical time -- liquidation of a business, analyzing the pros and cons of bankruptcy, selling our home, and communicating all of this to my loving wife of 49 years.

My life changed dramatically during and since the course. The support it and my close friends have provided, allowed me to resolve all of the issues I faced with an outcome more positive than I could have imagined. I am forever grateful.

The Program

The Money Course: Master your money, Transform your life is a nine-month program offered by Lynne Twist, Tammy White, and Dave Ellis. This engaging curriculum is designed to powerfully transform your relationship with money and life.

The Money Course promises

To put you powerfully in touch with your sufficiency, prosperity, and wealth

To give you a deep understanding and clarity of financial literacy

To provide you with tools and practices that empower you to align your spending with your most important values and commitments

To support you to live a healthy and satisfying financial life while improving your relationships, vitality, and ability to contribute (Click here for a preview about gratitude and generosity from Lynne)

To assist you to release upsets, dissolve barriers, and uncover blind spots that keep you from having a powerful relationship with money

To help you create a clear direction for the rest of your life and even beyond your life

To empower you to design, create, and produce measurable results that are unpredictable including increasing your income, decreasing your expenses, and increasing your net worth

Benefits that participants report

In addition to the promises we make about this program, past participants have reported the following benefits. Please read about their Accomplishments on the left. You can also click on any of the pictures below for a short video message.

The Structure

Embodied transformation and lifelong change occur with learning, collaboration, and recurrent practices. During The Money Course, we will facilitate your learning through the following seven pillars of support:

Three 60-minute interactive online classes per month

Three small support groups calls per month

Three 2½ day workshops near San Francisco, CA at a hotel next to the airport

Three one-on-one 30-minute coaching/mentoring sessions per month

Weekly homework assignments (taking one to two hours)

A participant website that facilitates communication, collaboration, and action

Coaching

Slight modifications in these prices may occur. Written contracts will be created for each participant.

Price

Tuition: $9,000

For the first three years of our program, the tuition was $20,000. Participants consistently reported that it was well worth what they paid. Many of them saved and/or made enough extra money by doing the program to more than pay for it. This year, out of our commitment to contribute, we lowered the price so we can reach more people.

The Money Course promises

To put you powerfully in touch with your sufficiency, prosperity, and wealth

To give you a deep understanding and clarity of financial literacy

To provide you with tools and practices that empower you to align your spending with your most important values and commitments

To support you to live a healthy and satisfying financial life while improving your relationships, vitality, and ability to contribute (Click here for a preview about gratitude and generosity from Lynne)

To assist you to release upsets, dissolve barriers, and uncover blind spots that keep you from having a powerful relationship with money

To help you create a clear direction for the rest of your life and even beyond your life

To empower you to design, create, and produce measurable results that are unpredictable including increasing your income, decreasing your expenses, and increasing your net worth

Three 60-minute interactive online classes per month

Three small support groups calls per month

Three 2½ day workshops near San Francisco, CA at a hotel next to the airport

Three one-on-one 30-minute coaching/mentoring sessions a month

Weekly homework assignments (taking one to two hours)

A participant website that facilitates communication, collaboration, and action

Two optional workshops on life planning and fundraising

Participation Bonus

The total amount you pay for this course can be lowered by as much as $3000
if you participate in the way we recommend and report your participation every month.
For more details, click here or talk to us.

Participation Bonus

If you plan to take advantage of this optional program, below are the details. We are happy to discuss them with you. This is the first year that we have experimented with this way of encouraging full participation.

In brief, if you take advantage of this incentive program, you will practice being a master student by our definition. You will report every month, in writing, your participation. If you do this, at the end of the course we will send you a tuition refund check for up to $3000. The amount will depend on the number of months that you send us an on-time report and will be based on the following numbers.

Coaching - $500

Attending up to 25 sessions at $10 each

Turning in up to 25 Pre and post coaching forms at $10 each

Workshops - $600

Three workshops at $200 each

Online classes - up to $30 each for up to 25 - $750

Attending live – $15 per class

Watching when not having attended live (within two weeks) – $10 per class

Providing feedback within 3 days of attending or watching – $15 per class

Support groups - up to 25 at $10 each - $250

Assignments - $900

Course goals turned in within one month of when you start the course = $200

Cash flow turned in on time – up to 2 times at $100 each = $200

For 2015 by May 15, 2016

For first half of 2016 by Aug 1, 2016

Budgets turned in on time – up to 2 times at $100 each = $200

For 2016 by June 1, 2016

Revised 2016 budget by October 1, 2016

Net Worth turned in – Up to 4 at $75 = $300

Financial – by May 15 and December 1, 2016

Personal – by May 15 and December 1, 2016

Payment Options

One way we have been able to lower the price is to have the tuition paid at the beginning of the course just like colleges require. However, if you want to spread out your payments and/or pay by credit card, you can do so for an extra $500.

Other Costs

In addition to the tuition, participants are responsible for their expenses for the three workshops and any of the bonus workshops they attend. The extra costs include travel, food, and lodging.

We have secured discounted rooms at a beautiful Marriott hotel, and we will offer room sharing and ride sharing options.

Coaching by Facilitators

Included in the regular tuition of $9000 are approximately three 30-minute per month one-on-one coaching sessions with a coach that we will assign to you.

Lynne Twist, Dave Ellis, and Tammy White are also available to provide one-on-one coaching at an additional cost. Their coaching can be a supplement to what is provided by your coach, or it can replace that coaching. If you are interested in working directly with one of them, please talk to us about the additional cost.

Invitation Only

To insure that we fulfill our bold promises for this course, we want to talk to you and learn about what you want for your money and your life. We can then, together, choose if this is the right course for you at the right time.

We have designed the application (and our conversation following it) to be extremely valuable whether or not you take the course. To facilitate our looking together, please complete the Application.

Filling out the application and talking about it with us will begin a process of mastering your money and transforming your life.

About Us

Lynne Twist

Facilitator and Coach

When you are fully present to your greatness, you can create a context inside of which you can articulate your deep commitments. Lynne is committed to inspiring in people the capacity to be authentic, clear, and bold. She offers a body of distinctions around the powerful revelation of sufficiency that helps people unlock their worldview and invites people to step into a larger possibility of who they are and what is possible for their lives.

Lynne has unbridled love for people’s challenges, beauty, and failings and invites them to own all aspects of themselves and be responsible for them. In this way, they are drawn to challenge themselves and to risk what is known for what is possible. This is the arena where real breakthrough happens. She brings the presence of love and appreciation in which people feel seen, honored, and known. There they discover the power of who they are and their capabilities.

Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author. She has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work. Lynne has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives including: ending world hunger; protecting the world’s rainforests; empowering indigenous peoples; improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children; advancing the scientific understanding of human consciousness; and creating a sustainable future for all life. The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences are the foundation for her best-selling, award-winning book, The Soul of Money.

Dave Ellis

Facilitator and Coach

Dave assists people to realize their fullest potential through his coaching, books, workshops, videos, and interactive online classes. He challenges people to think what they have never thought and empowers them to take actions that they have never taken. He facilitates others in creating their organizations and their lives by examining every area of life for the rest of their organization’s life and their personal life and beyond. They then develop realistic action plans to produce results they never imagined possible.

Dave is a leadership coach, author, educator, and philanthropist. He wrote and published, Becoming a Master Student, which is currently in its fifteenth edition and has been the best-selling college textbook in America for over two decades. In addition to this book, he has written six others including, Life Coaching, Falling Awake, and Creating Your Future.

Dave is a respected lecturer and workshop leader who has reached audiences worldwide since first sharing his principles in 1979. He has coached national and international nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, an NBA coach, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Through his workshops and books, he has helped over six million people create a more wonderful life.

In 1987, he founded The Brande Foundation which provides, at no cost, individual and group coaching to national and international nonprofits. Dave has contributed millions of dollars to the work of his foundation and to other organizations.

Ellis was an Assistant Dean of Student Services, a member of the Administrative Board, and president of National American University, a proprietary school, where for six years he taught computer programming and a first year experience course he designed on being successful in college. Dave has a bachelors degree in Computer Science and Psychology, a masters degree in Computer Science, work on a Ph.D. in Psychology, and an honorary Ph.D. in Naturopathic Philosophy.

He lives in the Bay Area of California with his wife Trisha. Together they have four daughters and five grandchildren.

Tammy White

Facilitator and Coach

Tammy is masterful at helping people uncover the reality of their current financial situation, and assists them to see ways their behaviors around money are part of a cultural habit. She provides distinctions that bring freedom and possibility to the domain of money. Tammy empowers people to have their money be an expression of their deepest values in a horizon of time that spans their whole life and beyond. She is a person who is clean and clear in her relationship to money and helps others locate that experience for themselves.

Tammy demystifies financial terms and processes and assists people to move from a space of being at the effect of their money to a place of power, clarity, and action in their relationship with money. In a culture where shame and insufficiency about money is common, Tammy makes the subject safe and leaves people with a sense of dignity as they discover and invent a new relationship with money for themselves.

Tammy spent over twenty years in the mortgage industry as a business owner and industry leader. She currently serves as a strategic advisor to The Soul of Money Institute with Lynne Twist and is a board member with The Pachamama Alliance. In addition, she is a facilitator for The Alternatives to Violence Project in the California state prison system.

Bill Rentz

Coach

Bill Rentz has worked with Dave Ellis for over 29 years. He is vice president of both Breakthrough Enterprises, Inc., and The Brande Foundation. Bill is an executive coach and has been awarded his MCC from the International Coach Federation. He is responsible for developing and operating The Coaching Project. Bill is also responsible for much of the day-to-day operation of our organizations. He lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota and is a dedicated husband for over 24 years.

JoAnne Bangs

Coach

JoAnne Bangs began a coaching practice 22 years ago while raising two young children and since then she has been coaching individuals, business owners, couples, and leaders of nonprofit organizations. She has spent years working with Anne Goddard, President of Child Fund International; Melanie Macdonald, President of World Neighbors; and Yolanda Richardson, Past President of Center for Development and Population Activities. After a major health challenge in 2000, she transformed all aspects of her life such that her life is now vibrant, accomplished, and joyful. Her goal is to assist her clients to achieve the same through her coaching and our trainings.

Peter Chandonnet

Coach

In addition to being a coach, Peter teaches yoga at the Yoga Studio in San Francisco. Peter has a great love for coaching and yoga, because these two forms of transformation have brought great love, abundance, purpose, and passion to his life and to the lives of others. His purpose is to be an inspiration to himself and to others and inspire others to their greatness. It is Peter's dream that we live in a world that is environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually fulfilling. He feels coaching and yoga have the potential to create such a world.

Anna Rheim

Coach

Anna Rheim begin coaching in 2005. She is a former professional photographer and current CFO for her husband’s medical corporation. A graduate of Stanford University, she has years of experience working in the fields of leadership, education, art, and business. Anna has traveled extensively and learned the art of ritual from indigenous cultures. Her interests include writing, photography, golf, and assisting people with their transformational development. This is her fourth year of participating with The Money Course.

Bill Zuelke

Coach

Bill Zuelke has been coaching since 2004 and is a licensed Professional Counselor. He has a Masters of Divinity from Boston College and a M.S. in pastoral counseling from Loyola University. He was a member of the Jesuits for 20 years and an ordained catholic priest. He has been involved in higher education as faculty, counselor, and Dean for 40 years. He has been married to Val for 25 years and has one adult daughter.